Book Review: Hive

Title: Hive

Author: Jeremiah Ukponrefe

Date: 2020

ISBN: 9781777332914

Quote: "Another day on the job."

In this space opera of a future of barely feudal civilization, two agents of "the Collective" spend another day on the job at a village market, killing unarmed citizens. Opposition to "the Collective," they find, is better organized, with weapons, by at least three groups: the Libertarians, the Amish, and the Hive. The Libertarians and Amish bear no resemblance to any group of people called by those names today, but what the two agents infiltrate is the Hive, in which people seem to be joined in a hivemind dominated by one man. The two agents smash their way through, killing more people as they go, until they can kill that man and look forward to rewards from "the Collective."

If you like books where the idea of a fantasy world is created mainly by words being used to mean things they don't mean in the real world, and the point-of-view characters kill most of the people they meet. you might like this book.